"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Now AI blocking will get you more precise control over your website! Now AI crawlers will be allowed to grab your website! But don't worry! They promised and pinky swore they wouldn't train any AI on your data. So your data is protected!
Isn't that great!!?
Crawlers are a big fucking problem and we really didn't build the internet to accomodate them. Maybe if we said in 1990 "hey what if datacenters with Tbps connections will mass query all websites" we'd have a solution by now, but obviously that wasn't really an issue back then. Anubis seems great but proof of work to prove you are a human seems to have it's issues.
Fucking hell. Why have a website anymore? Can we get a separate Internet where AI doesn’t exist?
There's gemini (terrible name unfortunately due to Google). But anything that becomes popular will just get flooded, too.
I would suggest Usenet but my guess is that there are bots there too.
needs something like treehouse from the novel otherland by tad williams. an anarchist online space, with changing entrypoints that are told only to members of said space... or to stay in reality, something like CACert, where you could get an SSL Certificate for your website for free by talking to people in person and stuff.... but nowadays youd make really sure the person you're inviting isnt some predatory submarine aibro looking for easy content...
awesome
Dear Tim Berners-Lee, Did you have a backup internet that the rest of us could use?
The Internet is not the World Wide Web. The Internet was over 20 years old when Tim invented Hypertext.
Yeah, search engines used to enable us to look up stuff online.
You're gonna hate when you find HOW they generated their search data for your searching.
I liked it. I regularly have lots of niche problems and back in the day I'd just put it into Google and find someone on Reddit or whatever who already tackled it 2 years ago. Now I don't.
Also used to occasionally watch the web server logs and see how the search engines check for updates on the organization I'm volunteering at. Or index my employer's website. Or the Fediverse apps I run. And tweak my visibility according to my liking. Now that changed quite dramatically as well.